That first JVC ad is really creepy. And I haven't seen so many candles since Terminus on Walking Dead. Elton John must have had big debts. Cute John Inman/Mr. Humphries ad. The Philips ad is so weird you forget what's being sold. 8:37 - dropping like it's hot? Very ahead of their time...
0:41 I was terrified when this advert came on, I used to get so embarrassed, watching it with my parents. It’s probably one of the first adverts that was so explicit…most British adverts were more prudish
I'm looking for a rather strange TV ad from around 1986 that may well have been a Public Information Film (I've found a few people who remember it and most think it was a PIF)- if anyone can shed any light I'd be very grateful: The ad featured a bird's-eye view of a busy outdoor swimming pool, and to the left of the screen there was a mother sat on a chair with a little boy in front of her, and she was unfastening his shirt buttons and talking to him as she did so. (I remember her being slightly overweight with short black hair and wearing a black jumper and trousers. The boy was a typical-looking small kid wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts.) Anyway, she was talking while unfastening the boy's shirt, seemed completely normal at this point. (The boy didn't say anything- it was just a long monologue by the mother and the boy just looked straight ahead at her the whole time.) But after a while the mother suddenly changed her voice mid-speech to a funny voice, and continued talking while unfastening the boy's buttons, but in a funny voice (I believe from what one person has told me that she buttoned the shirt back up). The boy didn't react to this at all. Then after another few minutes the mother was just lifted out of her chair by nothing, hung in mid-air for a few seconds still in a sitting position (while screaming out still in a funny voice) then fell into the pool with an enormous splash. Most bizarrely of all, absolutely NO-ONE reacted to this- the swimmers at the pool (there were loads of them) didn't acknowledge a thing, and even the boy didn't react- just stood staring straight ahead at the chair as if the mother was still there. Anyone have any recollection of this???
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Thanks for responding, the search is still on for this one! As well as the PIF theory we've had some people suggest it might have been a wacky advert for confectionery or a fizzy drink, because there do seem to have been quite a few wacky commercials at the time where someone took a bite/sip of the product being advertized and it made something zany happen to them like speeding up their voice and spiriting them away. Without a solid recollection we can only speculate though, a few people have said they vaguely recall this but can't remember what it was about! We have a blog post about it on the Unidentified Weird TV blog, feel free to share and ask people in case we manage to find anyone who can help! 🙂
@@mosquitor81 Funnily enough I'm trying to find one that for some reason terrified me as an infant and it was around this period where it might have been an ad for a department store or carpet store where people dressed in gorilla suits would storm in and take away the customers for some reason whilst grunting and whooping. Maybe Allied Carpets? . Will have another look for it now but if you know of it let me know 👍
It also would have been out of London as the rubella advert wasn't shown In London. London kids got their jabs at school. I know cos I'm the girl in the ad. :-)
Why is the JVC advert so sinister? It’s more like a public information film! 😨 In fact their CD one is a bit sinister too, WTF was going on at jvc in 1986?
Things that stick out: Its SO WHITE 😂 NatWest employing the one actor of any colour. NatWest also predicting the future by using the slogan 'NatWest online' a decade before it would mean what it came to mean. The JVC voice artist might be the same one who did that hellish AIDS 'dont die of ignorance' ad. Elton John.. bro. An advert FOR electricity? Electricity itself had to be advertised? Who was against using it?
hehe - Natwest's "online" account was a glimpse of the future!
The ads from 3:26 onwards come from Channel 4's showing of "Queen: Real Magic" on Saturday 25th October 1986.
yes they do as I own the tape of that concert now
JVC advert was a great classic.
the TA adverts are still pretty much the same 30 years later!
That first JVC ad is really creepy. And I haven't seen so many candles since Terminus on Walking Dead.
Elton John must have had big debts.
Cute John Inman/Mr. Humphries ad.
The Philips ad is so weird you forget what's being sold.
8:37 - dropping like it's hot? Very ahead of their time...
Aphex Twin sampled the Tampax advert for his track 'Tamphex'.
1986 was a magical year for me esp. the Mexico world cup
0:41 I was terrified when this advert came on, I used to get so embarrassed, watching it with my parents. It’s probably one of the first adverts that was so explicit…most British adverts were more prudish
How creepy is the Jvc one
Donna Kennedy I was 11 when this was broadcast, gave me the creeps then and still does!
Donna Kennedy lol 😂😈
to have had anything like that JVC back in the day would have been amazing. :D
NatWest Online! In 1986.
Channel 4 or ITV regions as they were the only two adverts networks back then, there was no cable or satellite tv in the UK, remarkable!
although limited, there WAS cable and satellite in the UK back then:
ua-cam.com/video/_9VrWiNrG1I/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/EUUvAhVmpPw/v-deo.html
That must be one of the earliest tampon adverts in this country. And it uses the word "PERIOD".
I'm looking for a rather strange TV ad from around 1986 that may well have been a Public Information Film (I've found a few people who remember it and most think it was a PIF)- if anyone can shed any light I'd be very grateful:
The ad featured a bird's-eye view of a busy outdoor swimming pool, and to the left of the screen there was a mother sat on a chair with a little boy in front of her, and she was unfastening his shirt buttons and talking to him as she did so. (I remember her being slightly overweight with short black hair and wearing a black jumper and trousers. The boy was a typical-looking small kid wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts.) Anyway, she was talking while unfastening the boy's shirt, seemed completely normal at this point. (The boy didn't say anything- it was just a long monologue by the mother and the boy just looked straight ahead at her the whole time.) But after a while the mother suddenly changed her voice mid-speech to a funny voice, and continued talking while unfastening the boy's buttons, but in a funny voice (I believe from what one person has told me that she buttoned the shirt back up). The boy didn't react to this at all. Then after another few minutes the mother was just lifted out of her chair by nothing, hung in mid-air for a few seconds still in a sitting position (while screaming out still in a funny voice) then fell into the pool with an enormous splash. Most bizarrely of all, absolutely NO-ONE reacted to this- the swimmers at the pool (there were loads of them) didn't acknowledge a thing, and even the boy didn't react- just stood staring straight ahead at the chair as if the mother was still there.
Anyone have any recollection of this???
I feel bad for not remembering but was 6 at the time.
What could that be an ad for! Sounds terrifying
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Thanks for responding, the search is still on for this one! As well as the PIF theory we've had some people suggest it might have been a wacky advert for confectionery or a fizzy drink, because there do seem to have been quite a few wacky commercials at the time where someone took a bite/sip of the product being advertized and it made something zany happen to them like speeding up their voice and spiriting them away.
Without a solid recollection we can only speculate though, a few people have said they vaguely recall this but can't remember what it was about! We have a blog post about it on the Unidentified Weird TV blog, feel free to share and ask people in case we manage to find anyone who can help!
🙂
@@mosquitor81 will have a look myself. Good luck in your quest
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Thank you! 🙂
@@mosquitor81 Funnily enough I'm trying to find one that for some reason terrified me as an infant and it was around this period where it might have been an ad for a department store or carpet store where people dressed in gorilla suits would storm in and take away the customers for some reason whilst grunting and whooping.
Maybe Allied Carpets? . Will have another look for it now but if you know of it let me know 👍
4:28 - I'm sure that's Ray Meagher on.the left
Some awesome ads here. Elton must have been on his arse. I love the JVC and Philips ones
@@CB394 drugs and chocolate
No, he was on somebody else’s arse. 🤮
is that Buster Bloodvessel in the BT radio pager ad?
It also would have been out of London as the rubella advert wasn't shown In London. London kids got their jabs at school. I know cos I'm the girl in the ad. :-)
It was on TVS
"Moro Uoro". Are you actually called M. O'Rourke, then?
Did they really use a big poster of Charles and Diana?
Kind of sad to look back at now...
Diana was the patron of the charity that organised the advert, which is why she featured so heavily.
Applemask yea. Meryl O'Rourke, I'm a stand up now :-)
Fantastic memories....why did Cadburys drop the s ?
Why is the JVC advert so sinister? It’s more like a public information film! 😨
In fact their CD one is a bit sinister too, WTF was going on at jvc in 1986?
They do indeed
The Philips Cd player ad is quite sinister....
High definition on a VHS tape lol. I don't think so.
This is the year Dempsey and makepeace finished
Things that stick out:
Its SO WHITE 😂
NatWest employing the one actor of any colour. NatWest also predicting the future by using the slogan 'NatWest online' a decade before it would mean what it came to mean.
The JVC voice artist might be the same one who did that hellish AIDS 'dont die of ignorance' ad.
Elton John.. bro.
An advert FOR electricity? Electricity itself had to be advertised? Who was against using it?